Re: [Mingw-users] Force MinGW64 in a setup.py

[George K. <xke...@ne...>]

On 8/26/2012 5:33 PM, Virgil Stokes wrote:
> Yes, but I am confused on this --- I would like to use the gcc in mingw-w64;
> but, have not figured out how I can do this. For example, suppose I have an IDE
> that I would like to force it to use the gcc in MinGW-w64 --- how would I do
> this?

Each compiler is an .exe file. For example, I have MinGW32 at
C:\MinGW\bin\cc.exe
C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe
C:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-cc.exe
C:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-gcc.exe

Because C:\MinGW\bin is in my PATH, I can run this compiler as 'cc', 
'gcc', 'mingw32-cc', or 'mingw32-gcc'. All four of these are really the 
same compiler.

Many IDEs or build systems use 'cc' or 'gcc' by default. To use some 
other compiler, you would point your IDE or build system to the .exe 
file for the other compiler.

Your setup.py uses distutils, so read the manual at
http://docs.python.org/install/index.html

You might run
$ python setup.py build --compiler=something

You might write a pydistutils.cfg file, so distutils always uses the 
other compiler.

--George Koehler